Get Some
General => General Chat => Topic started by: Pitchey on April 09, 2013, 08:23:50 pm
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Ok, I'm a glutton for punishment and am doing it again this year!
The Firefighter Sky Tower Stair Challenge to raise funds for the Leukemia & Blood Foundation.
Every little bit helps, even a tenner will do nicely!
Here's my fund raising page: http://www.firefightersclimb.org.nz/view_event_profile/1766
For those of you in Auckland me and my merry band of firefighters will be up there from about Friday the 10th to Sunday the 12th May 2013 with Saturday the 11th being the event date if you want to catch up.
(I am available to do public appearances and private appearances for select ladies.)
But in all seriousness, please give any odds & sods money wise that you can afford.
Thanks ya'll!
SFF Pitchey
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Boom.
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Will you shave your head as well?
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will you be in this years calendar?
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Happy to support the collection of blood from children with leukemia in order to help injured adults.
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Woah - Double Postination
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Read my Comment - give it some thought....
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What's better then firefighters running up the sky tower in full gear?
Firefighters running up the sky tower naked.
I know you're all thinking it.
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What's better then firefighters running up the sky tower in full gear?
Firefighters running up the sky tower naked.
I know you're all thinking it.
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Seriously
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Well, if ya want to see me waving my hose around it'll have to be a way bigger donation than a $20 mate!
(What, do you think I'm some sort of cheap hussy like Berg is? Ppffftttt! I have standards thank you very much! Not many I'll grant you but some!)
:-P
Monkey..... which head?
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i r come take photo's of you's ?
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(What, do you think I'm some sort of cheap hussy like Berg is? Ppffftttt! I have standards thank you very much! Not many I'll grant you but some!)
Well, Yes?
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Bumpity-Bump!
C'mon folks, lemme see your goldies!
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Who is this Anonymous guy flashing his cash about?
He must be super rich, he's always giving away money.
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Looks like you hit your target. Good stuff :>
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It was that Anonymous guy again who pitched in the last $40. What a cool guy.
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Looks like you hit your target. Good stuff :>
Now to extend it out more!
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Thanks to everyone whose supported us so far, only a couple of days to go now!
Feel free to annoy your co-workers, friend & family about this great event!
Even any gold coin donations are appreciated, you can do it via online banking or credit card, easy as!
Flick them an e-mail with the link to my, or the Tawa teams page.
My group starts its climb at 10:55am. Deadmeat, you're more than welcome to come and snap some piccies, PM me your cell #!
Check out Bridgette's hair cut on the Tawa Volunteer Fire Brigade Facebook page! She DID have about 50cm worth of hair at the start!
Cheers ya'll!
http://www.firefightersclimb.org.nz/view_event_profile/1766
http://www.firefightersclimb.org.nz/view_group_event_profile/441
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Luv you orange fluffy!
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Hmmm, could anybody put me up on the Thursday and Sunday nights?
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How far up?
It sounds like cheating to me.
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done mr pitchey
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Thanks Helly, special photo in the mail for you! :-P
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When you get to the top of the tower, tell the rain to stop.
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If you're standing at the bottom SM, I'll send you some yellow rain down!
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Well, that sucked arse big time! Don't get me wrong, the fundraising went great with a total of $477,851 being raised.
But, at Wednesday nights training, I started to feel a bit under the weather. "Just a sniffle" thinks I.
Early Thursday morning we set off on the long drive to Auckland, still feeling a bit naff, stay the night at a mates place but am rapidly starting to feel like crap, cue a drive to the 24hr Quacks.
"Well" says the nurse (who was old enough to be my mom, wheres all the hotties? Very disappoint!) "It's no wonder you feel ill, you have a temperature of 38.5!"
"Ahhhh" thinks I, "thats not a good sign".
Indeed it was not as the Indian Doctor (nice chap but I've no idea how to pronounce his name) explained to me.
"You have got an infection in your left hand tonsil."
At this stage I'm envisaging surgery, ice cream and several young nurses flitting about my room, wishful thinking on my part as it turned out.
"You cannot be working for a couple of days and I will prescribe you some treatments."
"Say what? I gotta climb the bloody sky tower on Saturday mate!"
Anyhoo, $100 lighter but with 4 different types of pills/tablets/capsules in a nice brown paper bag later and it's back to my mates place, load up with drugs and straight to bed.
Friday we transferred to the hotel and I just went straight to bed, knackered. Not happy!
Saturday, climb day, the bed sheets are damp from where I've been sweating into them, not from being with nurses, or even the dreams of nurses unfortunately.
Still feeling like crap but I thought "What would Space Monkey do?"
After reconsidering the poo flinging approach I decided "Fuck you fever and fuck you tonsils I'm doing this" and managed to have a shave and get kitted out.
After listening to the briefing at the base of the tower "Is there any medical or health condition we need to be aware of?" *Coff Coff* it was on, however I quickly hit the wall and, bastard that it is, it was bigger and heavier than me.
I could do about 2 floors before having to have a stop and I was sweating a river.
However I'd told myself that I was going to complete the climb no matter what and so that's what I did, in the most horrendous floor by floor crawl that I'd ever envisaged to give myself a shocker of 1hour and 6 minutes climb time.
What pissed me off was that with all the training I'd been doing I was going to be looking at a sub 19 minute climb!
Ffffffffffffuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Anyway, thanks for all your support folks, you've done really well.
Hopefully next year I won't get crook and there will be some attractive nurses around for me to...... explore Auckland with?
Here's a pic of me coming over the line, feeling like a stunned mullet, the BA mask hanging on my chest is awash with sweat, yuk.
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Time for more drugs.
Whoops, and a video made by a mate of mine: http://youtu.be/a2BCb4BwlGE
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GW Pitchey.
Most of us would have bailed.
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Glad to hear you finished it.
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Amazing effort for being that sick
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bet you would have got up there faster if there were some hot nurses at the top :)
glad you made it to the top pitchey
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Good work making it to the top, and get well soon.
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Imagine if out of sheer coincidence the top of the sky tower caught on fire that day.
If its ever going to do it, it would have been the ideal time. Or if its thinking of doing it, hopefully its soon while the firefighters are all so fit.
Soon they will be fat again.
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Legend.
I will do this one day, when I'm a fire truck.